Jennifer Wilde

Thomas Elmer Huff was born on 08 January 1938 in Tarrant, Texas, USA. He graduated from Poly High School and from Texas Wesleyn College in 1960. For several years, he was a English teacher at R.L. Paschal High School. Published since 1968, during the first nine years he wrote under the female pseudonyms Edwina Marlow, Beatrice Parker, T. E. Huff, and Katherine St. Clair. In 1976, when he began writing historical romance novels, he created his most famous female pseudonym Jennifer Wilde. His first release, Love's Tender Fury, had 41 printings in its first five years and sold more than 2.5 million copies, and his second historical romance, Dare to Love, spent 11 weeks on the New York Times paperback bestseller list. He earned a Career Achievement Award in 1987-1988 from Romantic Times. Single, he lived with her mother in Fort Worth, where he was buried after he died suddenly of a massive heart failure on 16 January 1990.

Book List in Order: 21 titles

  • When Emmalynn Remembers

    A victim of amnesia since Henrietta's murder, Emmalynn returns to the scene of the crime, the Brighton estate she now owns, where three men--caretaker Boyd Devlon, Henrietta's brother Gordon, and George, the killer's son--vie for her love. Reprint....

  • They Call Her Dana

    Born in the backwater bayous of Louisiana, beautiful Dana O'Malley fled the squalid farm and heavy work that had killed her well-born mother. With the pride and intelligence that was her heritage, Dana soon achieved wealth, fame...and the avid attent...

  • The Slipper

    They started out with nothing but their dreams, determined to meet destinies filled with fame and fortune. ONCE UPON A TIME.... There were three young women who dreamed of glittering, magical lives, of living with Prince Charming happily ever aft...

  • Angel in Scarlet

    Angela Howard was the toast of London -- a breathtaking vision every woman envied and every man longed to possess. Few would have dreamed this violet-eyed beauty was the precocious child of a country schoolmaster... the feisty girl who had spurned Lo...

  • When Love Commands

    Savagery & Splendor This tumultuous love story continues the rapturous adventures of Marietta Danver, a woman whose beauty sets men's hearts aflame. Marietta races to London by carriage to start a new life with the only man she has ever truly loved-...

  • Once More, Miranda

    The incomparable saga of Miranda James, a child of the streets who found fame in eighteenth-century literary London. There has never been a heroine as feisty and bright as Miranda James...never a hero as sexy and masculine as Cameron Gordon... ...

  • Dare to Love

    To dangerous to love.... Who dared to love Elena Lopez? Who was willing to risk reputation and wealth to win the Spanish dancer who was the scandal of Europe? Kings, princes, great composers and writers... the famous and wealthy men of the 19th cent...

  • Love Me, Marietta

    Her Beauty Was Power... Men fought to touch her, hold her, staked claim to her body and her heart. Derek Hawke, once her master, now openly vowed his love, promising her a place a mistress of his English estate. Red Nick, the cruel pirate, showere...

  • Love's Tender Fury

    She was an indentured servant, an irresistible mistress, a woman with a will of her own... The turbulent story of an English beauty -- sold at auction like a slave -- who scandalized the New World by enslaving her masters. Marietta was a woman ...




  • Jamintha

    Young Jane Danver was coming home to a past she could not remember...to a guardian who terrified her...to a handsome, violent cousin who shocked her and filled her with desire at the same time...to an evil that had let her escape once but surely woul...

  • Midnight at Mallyncourt

    In the menacing wings of a Victorian mansion actress Jennifer Randall plays her most terrifying role. When the advances of her employer force her to abandon her promising acting career and leave her penniless, Jennifer Randall agrees to pose as Ed...

  • Room Beneath the Stairs

    As a child, Carolyn Dawson had loved playing on Greycliff, an island of the Cornish coast owned by the rich and powerful Brandon family. Several years later she returns to the island -- and Greycliff Manor -- as the bride of romantic, mysterious Grey...

  • Wherever Lynn Goes

    Rings of Doom. The phone calls had started again, even after Lynn had the number unlisted. They were always the same, the same low, husky voice saying "Lynn, Lynn, it's Daddy." They were sick, someone's poor idea of a joke. Lynn's father had been dea...

  • Meet a Dark Stranger / Whisper in the Darkness

    Danger in His Arms Two men had fought over lovely Jane Martin on the train to the quaint fifteenth-century city of Abbotstown. She trembled when handsome Stephen Brent rescued her from an aggressive young man in the dining car, and now she could ...

  • Nine Bucks Row / Susannah, Beware

    London's East End was in the grip of terror. The madman they called The Ripper was still n the loose and Susannah's aunt, the earthy, flamboyant Marietta, had been his latest victim, leaving Susannah stunned, alone in the world but for Nicholas Craig...

  • Betrayal at Blackcrest

    Spiderweb of Passion. The great, grim manor of Blackcrest held many secrets for beautiful young Deborah Lane. London and safety seemed worlds and centuries away as she tried to discover what had happened here to her lovely cousin, whose face and name...

  • Stranger by the Lake

    Pretty Susan Marlow had always loved Greenwood Manor and its crusty, delightful mistress, her aunt, Lady Agatha Gordon. But now, when Susan returned to the stately old mansion, all seemed utterly changed. There was a man at Greenwood now, a tall, pow...

  • Come to Castlemoor

    Kathy Hunt came to Castlemoor when she got the news of her brother's sudden and tragic death. The shadow of Castlemoor fell ominously across themoors. Every soul seemed to live in terror. When Kathy found that her brother's life work - a study of blo...

  • The Lady of Lyon House

    He was a tall man in a wide, checked cloak, and when the swirling London mist could not hide his face, he slipped into the shadows. Someone had been following Julia Meredith night after night, someone whose footsteps rang on the fog-wet cobblestones ...




  • Falconridge

    "Why don't you leave, Miss Moore? Falconridge is not kind to people who do not belong. You do not belong. You are an outsider." But despite the housekeeper's grim warning Lauren Moore had to stay, for she had nowhere else to go. Lauren had been left ...

  • The Master of Phoenix Hall

    One dear friend--One deadly foe One day lovely young Angela Todd was a seamstress struggling to sustain herself in London; the next, she was independent and owner of a charming country cottage. Her legacy gave her everything she had ever wanted. No...

Complete Series List in Order

Marietta Danver Trilogy

1) Love's Tender Fury (Jan-1976)
2) Love Me, Marietta (Aug-1977)
3) When Love Commands (Oct-1984)

Award-Winning Books by Jennifer Wilde

Angel in Scarlet
1986 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Romantic Adventure
They Call Her Dana
1989 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Historical Glitz & Glamour
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